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Sacro GRA
Inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and made over three years, Gianfranco Rosi’s feature was the first actuality film to win the Golden Lion at Venice. Presenting a bustling snapshot of life along Rome’s 42.4-mile ring road, known as the ...

Sacro Gra review: a gentle drive around the city of Rome
Mostly, however, Sacro Gra – named as slant rhyme for Sacro Graal (Holy ... Rosi’s latest documentary was the surprise winner of the Golden Lion prize at last year’s Venice Film Festival. Surprise in this instance means everyone scratched their ...

Sacro Gra
A winner of the Golden Lion at the 70th Venice Film Festival (and the only documentary to do so thus far), Sacro GRA is a loose but sometimes riveting exploration of the lives that occupy the areas near the titular ring road surrounding Rome. Rosi picks ...

Sacro GRA review – a beguiling documentary prose-poem to Rome
In 2013, this fascinating, almost experimentally unclassifiable film by Gianfranco Rosi won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival. It is an enigmatic non-fiction essay, a docu-prose-poem about the peripheries of urban life in Rome. It would be great ...

Venice Review: Golden Lion Winner 'Sacro GRA'
It's a good thing that "Sacro ... the Venice Film Festival, yesterday (making it the first documentary to win the top prize in the 70-year history of the festival). Because, quite frankly, it's just about the only reason you'd come to read this review.